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波乗り河童/Surfin’ Kappa 妖怪の河童。こわっぱ、カワウソ、福太郎と色々な呼び方が有ります。カッコイイ河童って居ないよね。 今回は河童のご先祖様、大きな河を隔てて弥生文化を眺める縄文文化の親父さんを描いてみました。腰にはウニを持って、川向うの民と物々交換をしに行きます。大きな胡瓜に乗ってサーフィン。 体にはポリネシアン・タトゥーが。江戸時代まで刺青は民族の証やまた流行でもありました。石器～縄文人はこんな感じだったかも。 月岡吉年の浮世絵の河童はイゾラドに似てます。私たちの先祖は河から上流の山々へ移り住んだので、みんな河童の子孫かも？ The kappa is a Japanese monster. It is called “kappa,” “kawauso,” “kawarou,” “fukutaro,” and many other names. There are also similar yokai such as Hyosube and Kawa-Akago. There is no such thing as a cool kappa. This time, I drew a kappa's ancestor, a father of the Jomon culture looking at the Yayoi culture across a big river. With a sea urchin on his waist, he goes to barter with the people across the river. He surfs on a big cucumber. Polynesian tattoos on his body. Until the Edo period, tattoos were a sign of ethnicity and also a fashion. Stone Age to Jomon people might have looked like this. The kappa in the ukiyoe paintings of Yoshitoshi Tsukioka look like Izoraba. Our ancestors moved from the river to the mountains upstream, so are we all descended from kappa? It is very enjoyable to depict the “outside” of the world. https://t.co/j44uKGPLUI